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I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus." www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...

techdirt.comTrump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-EdsFor years, we’ve been hearing breathless warnings about a “campus free speech crisis” from self-proclaimed free speech warriors. Their evidence? College students doing what colleg…

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Is there anyone left who thinks for a second that there are still republicans who put principles over sides? Anyone who put principles first was purged from the party in 2020 if not sooner. Now the only principle that matters is "cui bono" -- once that is answered the rest is rationalization.

Yes- DEFINITELY want to stand up. Call congressman and protest - check. What else? I feel like I should know but I don't. Attended a meeting recently where they talked about phone banks- what?? Honestly, someone please advise.

God I don't wonder. Never took that stuff at face value. Classic authoritarian tack to use liberalism's features during rise to power, then pivot hard against once there.

Not excusing the administration, but it's wrong to call this a disappearance since her whereabouts are known and she has access to counsel. Disappearances are when someone is abducted by police or paramilitaries and never heard from again, presumably because they were killed.

She was missing for a while and the courts ordered that she not be moved without 48 hours of notice. So while she wasn't blackholed, she did disappear for a while and they had to agitate to get information.

Someone else said this but when students were organizing to disrupt or have speakers canceled - that was a threat that they thought could happen to them. They just don't think they'll be grabbed off the street and disappeared though.

Because it's only free speech of the free speech absolutists agree with it. They also don't see irony or contradiction in this position because they don't see any other position.

Powerful wealthy donors and alumni at the universities like Penn and Harvard pushed out their presidents last year for failing to protect students from anti-Semitic harassment. Now another group of students is being targeted. Will those same donors and alumni speak up on their behalf?